Imagine the Church of England, with two Scotch Archbishops at its head, thinking that the Presbyterians would consent to so humiliating a condition! An interchange of pulpits is desirable; it might increase our intelligence, or at least it should widen our sympathy.

He holds a high opinion of the Quakers.

"Practical mystics: perhaps they are the best Christians, I mean the best of them." Modernism, he defines, at its simplest, as personal experience, in contradistinction from authority.

The modernist is one whose knowledge of Christ is so personal and direct that it does not depend on miracle or any accident of His earthly life.

Rome, he thinks, is a falling power, but she may get back some of her strength in any great industrial calamity--a revolution, for example.